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Thursday, 29 September 2016

BlackBerry to stop making phones

BlackBerry to stop making phones

BlackBerry is shutting down its phone business after 14 years of making handsets.
The company’s devices were once the phone of choice for professionals, providing access to emails on the move, but BlackBerry has struggled to keep up with competition from rivals Apple and Samsung as mobile users increasingly opt for touchscreens.
The Canadian company is now focusing on making software and will outsource the manufacture of hardware to other companies.
John Chen, the company’s executive chairman
and chief executive, said: “We are focusing on software development, including security and applications. The company plans to end all internal hardware development and will outsource that function to partners. This allows us to reduce capital requirements and enhance return on invested capital.”
Chen said earlier this year that he would know by September whether the loss-making handset business was likely to become profitable.
John Jackson, analyst at IDC, said BlackBerry’s decision to stop making devices was “entirely sensible and probably overdue”. He added

The Paris Motor Show is on today, and Mercedes-Benz is using the big gathering as a platform to present its vision for the future of electric mobility. Introducing a new EQ brand, standing for "Electric Intelligence," the German automaker has revealed a new concept car that embodies its ideas about designing vehicles "based on an architecture developed specifically for battery-electric models." It's called Generation EQ and it's a streamlined, all-wheel drive, all-electric SUV in its Paris form, but Mercedes says the underlying architecture is versatile enough to also be used for saloons, coupes, cabriolets, and other models, thanks to a modular component system.

The Generation EQ car joins in the current trend among concept vehicles of replacing side mirrors with cameras and disguising door

handles and windshield wi

pers in order to emphasize a clean aerodynamic shape. It's a reinterpretation of Mercedes' design philosophy and aims to set a distinctive new "electro-look" for the company, as Daimler head of design Gorden Wagener explains. As if there weren't enough LEDs on the exterior — signalling the electric drive within, presumably — the interior is also strewn with electric illumination strips and is dominated by a super wide 24-inch TFT screen that sits in the place of the traditional instrument panel. OLED touchscreens sit on two of the steering wheel's three spokes, providing access to menus and

Samsung restarts TV commercials for the phone, throws in cheaper screen replacements for its home market.

Samsung moving towards the conclusion of its Galaxy Note 7 recall — at least in its home market of South Korea. According to Reuters, the company will restart sales of the phone on October 1, by which time it expects 80 percent of old, potentially hazardous Note 7s to have been returned.

In the run up to the new start date, Samsung has reportedly resumed Note 7 TV commercials in Korea, and to sweeten the deal it's throwing in 50% off any repairs to the phone — including screen replacements — for customers buying a Note 7 in the month

Breaking news! Fuel Subsidy removed

Breaking! Fuel subsidy removed; new price of fuel revealed

The federal government of Nigeria has removed subsidy on fuel and it will now start to sell for N145 per litre.
This removal was made on Wednesday, May 11.
Until the removal, the official price of petrol was N87 per litre although consumers have been paying as much as N200 for fuel due to scarcity.
Ibe Kachikwu and President Muhammadu Buhari
The removal in fuel subsidy has been a lingering issue since President Muhammadu Buhari took over power.
The minister of state for petroleum product, Dr Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu had said that the citizens were not benefitting from the subsidy which made it necessary to be removed.
An official in the petroleum industry had earlier said the federal government would deregulate the downstream sector of the Nigerian petroleum industry so as to put an end to scarcity.
The petroleum minister in a statement said the decision was taken based on the current challenges and that Nigerians have been paying exorbitant prices for fuel.
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Man climbs 126-year-old statue to take a selfie, breaks it into pieces

Technically Incorrect: In Lisbon, Portugal, a railway station enjoys a beautiful statue of a 16th century king. Until a selfie-taker tries to climb it.

LASU Suspends 4 Students Over Alleged Cult-Related Activities

The Lagos State University (LASU) has suspended four students for cult-related activities and improper conducts.

This is contained in the university’s official bulletin ‎obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Lagos.

The bulletin quoted the institution as saying that conducts of the suspended students could cause breach peace on the campus.

The bulletin said the University’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun, took the decision on behalf of the university

Following the recommendation of death penalty for kidnappers, the Senate has been urged to take a step further and recommend same punishment for treasury looters.

This call was contained in a statement issued by the chairman, Association of Online Media Practitioners, Wole Arisekola.

He noted that while the recommendation made during the week by the senators prescribing death penalty for kidnappers was laudable, the lawmakers should go a step further by also recommending same punishment for public officials who loot the treasury.

Arisekola, in the statement noted that “the same law should be passed on corrupt public officials because corruption is wors

Justin Timberlake is “definitely” working on a ton of new music. Hot off the release of his fun-loving“CAN’T STOP THE FEELING!” single, JT is executive producing the upcoming Trolls soundtrack and crafting his own follow-up to 2013’s The 20/20 Experience.

During an interview with Carson Daly on 97.1 AMP Radio, Timberlake opened up about the inspiration behind his new material.

“Where I grew up in America has a lot of influence,” he said. “Growing up in Tennessee—very central of the country—Memphis is known as being the birthplace of rock and roll, but also the home of the blues, but Nashville’s right down the street so there’s a lot of country music.”

When Daly suggested collaborations with everyone from Drake to Chris Stapleton, JT was open to the possibilities. “It’s funny that you say that because you might be in my brain about certain types of collaborations coming up on my next albu

Bush-whacked: Jeb joins brother and father in vowing not to vote for Trump

Jeb: delivering strike three for the Bush clan.

Jeb Bush has joined his brother and father in declaring that he will not support Donald Trump, the presumptive nominee, in the presidential election in November.

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On Friday, a day after House speaker Paul Ryan said he could not support Trump just yet, Bush posted to Facebook a

Donald Trump will testify after the presidential election on a class-action lawsuit that accuses the billionaire businessman and his now-defunct Trump University of defrauding people who paid up to $35,000 for real estate seminars.

A federal judge in San Diego on Friday set a Nov. 28 trial. Trump lawyer Daniel Petrocelli says the presumptive GOP nominee plans to attend most, if not all, of trial and will take the witness stand.

The lawsuit is one of three that

China Bans Videos of People Eating Bananas

Well, fuck. China has reportedly banned people from seductively eating bananas on film. I am devastated.

According to state news outlet CCTVNews, the country has banned people from live-streaming their consumption of the delicious yellow fru

EA and developer Dice today revealed the next major entry in the venerable warfare series Battlefield. Just as the rumor mill believed, the game will be set in World War I -- and the new game, appropriately, is titled Battlefield 1. "We chose the name because we're going back to the true dawn of all out warfare," lead game designer Daniel Berlin said at a private event near San Francisco for press and fans, "and this is the genesis

In his first remarks about Donald Trump's status as the GOP's presumptive nominee, President Barack Obama on Friday urged the media to undertake tougher scrutiny of presidential candidates.

"We are in serious times and this is a really serious job," Obama said at the White House. "This is not entertainment; this is not a reality show."

Obama suggested that Trump's rise was enabled by a press that focuses on the frivolous.

"What I'm concerned about is the degree to which reporting and information starts emphasizing the spectacle and the circus," Obama said, simultaneously

The judge overseeing the Prince estate case has authorized genetic testing on a sample of his blood in case it's necessary to determine who's entitled to shares of the estate.

Carver County District Judge Kevin Eide on Friday granted a request by the special administrator overseeing the estate, Bremer Trust, to hire DNA Diagnostics Center to perform the genetic testing on a blood sample now held by the medical examiner's office that conducted the autopsy on Prince.

Prince died April 21 at his home in

The US military has for the first time publicly acknowledged that US troops are operating inside Yemen to help the country’s government and a Saudi-backed coalition confront al-Qaida affiliated forces.

Defense department spokesman Navy captain Jeff Davis said on Friday that a “very small number” of military personnel has in recent weeks been working with Yemeni and Arab Coalition forces to push al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) fighters from the port city of Mukalla.

The Pentagon has stepped up air strikes

The Naira on Friday traded at N321 to the dollar at the parallel market.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Naira remained stable at N321 for almost a week.

However, the Pound Sterling and the Euro exchanged at N467 and N365 respectively.

Meanwhile, the Naira remained at N197 to the dollar at the official Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) rate.

Traders attributed the stability in the price of the Naira to activities of currency hoarders who anticipated a new policy direction with the passage of the budget. (NAN)

NDLEA Arrests Corps Member With 9Kg Of Indian Hemp In Sokoto

The Sokoto State Command of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Friday arrested a female Youth Corps member currently serving in Zamfara with 9 kilogrammes of Indian hemp.

The Commandant of the agency in the state, Alhaji Mohammed Idris, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Sokoto.

Idris said the suspect was serving in Gumi Local Government Area of Zamfara, and was arrested along Sokoto-Gusau road in Sokoto State.

He said that the suspect had confessed to being initiated into the business by a fellow Corps member.

He said the suspect had boarded a luxury bus from Onitsha in Anambra,

Former Spokesperson to the ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s Campaign Organisation, Chief Femi Fani- Kayode said contrary to media reports, he received only one letter of invitation from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

According to a statement by his special adviser media, Jude Ndukwe the EFCC wrote a letter of invitation to his principal Chief Femi Fani-Kayode this morning asking that he report to their Abuja office on the morning of May 9th for a discussion.

He said, the letter was dated 6th May 2016 and it was signed by one Mr. Mohammed Umar Abba on behalf of the Acting Chairman, Mr. Ibrahim Magu.

“This is the first and only letter of invitation that Chief Fani-Kayode has received from the EFCC and it puts a lie to the shameful allegation that was being peddled

How Did Drake do it? He joins Forbes List Of Top Five Richest Hip-hop Stars.

Drake Joins Forbes List Of Top Five Richest Hip-Hop Stars

Rapper Aubrey “Drake” Graham became the newest member of The Forbes five club of hip-hop’s wealthiest artist on Monday with a net worth of 60 million dollars, said Forbes.

The annual list had regularly included rap artistes Bryan “Birdman” Williams, Andre “Dr. Dre” Young, Shawn “Jay Z” Carter, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and Sean “Diddy” Combs.

Due to the mismanagement of funds which resulted in a bankruptcy last summer, 50 Cent was superseded by Drake, who had increased his net worth through touring, music releases and business deals with Nike, Sprite and Apple.

Drake’s forth studio album ‘’views’’, a Toronto native who goes by his middle name, sold an estimated 630,000 copies on its April 29 release date, according to Vibe Magazine.
With each album selling at 13.99 dollars exclusively on iTunes, the 29-year-old made about 800,000 dollars that night on release.

Business mogul and rap artist Diddy continued to hold the number one title with a net worth of 750 million dollars.

Thanks to his agreement with Diageo’s Circo vodka, stakes in his music television network Revolt, his clothing line Sean John and more.

Dr Dre followed with 710 million dollars, then Jay Z in third place with 610 million dollars and finally Birdman, who came fourth with 110 million dollars.

While his net worth was small in comparison to his fellow club members, Drake was quickly climbing the ranks, earning some 150 million dollars to date before taxes and spending, Forbes said.

The business magazine analyzes artistes’ past earnings, values their current holdings and talks to industry specialists to determine which hip-hop star makes it on the list.

Combined together, Forbes disclosed that, all five artists are worth 2.2 billion dollars. (Reuters\NAN)

A ninth child! Eddie's Gf gives birth

Eddie Murphy has Ninth Child with Girlfriend Paige Butcher

Funny man Eddie Murphy who is slated to return to the limelight sometime this year, certainly knows how to pop them out.

According to E!online, the Coming to America star has welcomed a baby girl with his girlfriend of four years, Paige Butcher. It’s his ninth child and Butcher’s first.

His representative confirmed to E! News that Paige gave birth to their daughter ‘Izzy Oona Murphy’, this morning, and she weighed 7 lbs., 15 oz. and was 19.5 inches. “Both mother and daughter are doing well,” according to E! News.

Here’s a list of Eddie’s kids starting from the eldest- Eric, with ex-girlfriend Paulette McNeely, and Christian, with ex-girlfriend Tamara Hood, Five more children with ex-wife Nicole Mitchell: Bria, Myles, Shayne, Zola, and Bella. + 9-year-old Angel with former Spice Girls member ‘Mel B’.

Clinton Exploring How To Win Over Republicans

As Trump Wins, Clinton Exploring How to Win Over Republicans

With Donald Trump all but clinching the Republican nomination for president, Hillary Clinton is beginning to explore ways to woo Republicans turned off by the brash billionaire.

The Democratic front-runner's campaign believes Trump's historically high unfavorable ratings and penchant for controversy may be enough to persuade a slice of GOP voters to get behind her bid, in much the same way so-called Reagan Democrats sided with the Republican president in the 1980s.

Democrats caution their effort to win over Clinton Republicans — or Hilla-cans, perhaps — is in its earliest stages, but could grow to include ads and other outreach targeted in particular at suburban women in battleground states. Already

Pop queen … Beyoncé’s Lemonade is dominating the Billboard charts.

Beyoncé has made Billboard Hot 100 history, as she becomes the first woman to have 12 tracks charting simultaneously in the rundown.

The songs make up Lemonade, her new album, which reaches the No 1 slot after selling 653,000 copies in the week ending 28 April, according to Nielsen Music. Her showing beats the record of Taylor Swift, who had 11 tracks in the top 100 at the same time in 2010, following the release of her album Speak Now.

Beyoncé's Lemonade is about much more than infidelity and Jay Z

Only one of Beyoncé’s songs is currently in the top 10, however: Formation – which was released in February – sits at No 10, while Sorry, the most streamed track from Lemonade with 14.2m US streams, is at No 11, with Hold Up at No

Health workers in Ondo State Government Medical Village in Ondo, Ondo west local government, yesterday took to the streets to protests their unpaid salaries running into five months by the state government.

The workers in their hundred, including doctors, nurses, pharmacists, laboratory assistance , records officers, among others, paralysed activities at all government health facilities across chanting solidarity songs.

The angry protesters were armed with leave branches and placards with various inscriptions such as “Pay our salaries “ ,”Shall we die bef

Texas senator Ted Cruz is suspending his presidential campaign for the Republican nomination following his loss to Donald Trumpin the Indiana Republican primary, Cruz announced at a rally tonight in Indianapolis.

"Together we left it all in the field in Indiana, we gave it everything we got," he said. "So with a heavy a heart, but with boundless optimism, for the long term future of our nation, we are suspending our campaign," Cruz told supporters.

Several Cruz staffers were crying before Cruz took the stage and his family appeared visibly emotional alongside Cruz as he made his announcement.

“From the beginning I said I would continue on, as long as there was a viable path,” Cruz said. “Tonight, I’m sorry to say, it appears that path has been foreclosed.”

Indiana GOP Primary: Donald Trump Pr

A 10-year-old Finnish kid won $10,000 for hacking Instagram

And he's not even old enough for an account.

A precocious youth has won a $10,000 bug bounty from Facebook after he figured out a way to delete other users' comments from Instagram's servers,Mashable reports.

The youngster, a 10-year-old Finnish kid named Jani, claimed the security flaw he discovered could even allow him to delete Justin Bieber's Instagram comments and captions, should he feel so inclined. Jani showed off his hack to the Instagram team by deleting a comment they posted on a test account. As the boy's father told the Finnish news site Iltalehti, Jani and his twin brother are fairly prolific at poking holes in seemingly secure websites, but the Instagram hack was their biggest to date.

The $10,000 prize was part of Facebook's Bug Bounty program, which offers rewards to White Hat hackers and other researchers who find bugs or security flaws in their code. In 2015, Facebook reportedly paid out $936,000 to 210 different researchers, out of a grand total of 13,000 submissions. 102 of those submissions were considered "high impact."

Tuesday, 3 May 2016

RITA ORA DISPELS BECKY RUMORS, POSES WITH BEYONCÉ

There seems to be no bad blood between Beyoncé and Rita Ora.

After denying that she is “Becky”—the now infamous woman Queen Bey references on “Sorry”—Rita hung out and danced with ‘Yoncé at the Met Gala on Monday (May 2).

Rita shared her love for the LEMONADE chart-topperwith a side-by-side Snapchat too. The flick’s caption? “Family” and a heart emoji.

Just in case that didn’t clarify things, Ora also rocked a “Not Becky” name tag to a Met Gala after-party.

After LEMONADE dropped, the “Body on Me” singer was criticized for posting a photo of a lemon-adorned bra on Snapchat. She was also bashed by some BeyHive members for wearing the same Gucci dress Bey donned in her “Formation” video.

Ora signed to Jay Z’s Roc Nation in 2008, but sued for her release last year, claiming she felt “orphaned” by the label. Despite that, she denied any animosity against Bey in a tweet denying an affair with Hov.

Ora wasn’t the only person accused of being “Becky” by fans. Others included fashion designer Rachel Royand, due to some confusion, celebrity chef Rachael Ray.

BIRDMAN ADDRESSES GAY RUMORS, LIL WAYNE, & RICK ROSS

Birdman continues to demand his “respek.” After walking out of his “Breakfast Club” interview, the hip-hop mogul stopped by Hot 97’s “Ebro in the Morning” to speak on all the controversy.

Sitting down with host Ebro Darden and co-host Laura Stylez, Baby opened up about the memes and jokes that have resulted from his brief talk with DJ Envy, Angela Yee, and Charlamagne Tha God.

“A lot of that shit funny, man,” said Birdman. “Y’all don’t understand how dead serious I was in that building, man. Y’all done made this shit…and it’s cool. I’m with it. It gave a ni**a a laugh and I don’t like to laugh. I only like to smile. But it’s cool. A lot of that shit is real funny they got on the Internet, but it’s cool.”

During the interview, Birdman also addressed rumors about his sexuality, talks of a feud with Rick Ross and Trick Daddy, and his ongoing dispute with Lil Wayne. See highlights from the 35-minute conversation below.

ON RICK ROSS: “Me and Ross was like brothers everyday, hanging together. They one of the reasons we came to Miami, because them ni**as embraced us so strong when we came out here. I don’t know what his call was

News on Solar Plane

Solar Plane Arrives in Arizona on Latest Leg of Global Trip

An airplane powered only by sunlight has arrived in a Phoenix suburb after completing the latest leg of its global trip.

The Swiss-made Solar Impulse 2 landed shortly before 9 p.m. PDT Monday at Phoenix Goodyear Airport after a 16-hour flight from Mountain View, California, south of San Francisco.

It began the 10th leg of the trek — that's now over a year old — just after 5 a.m.

SLOW GOING, BUT WHAT VIEWS

Flying without fossil fuel makes for a long trip.

The plane's solar

Pakistan says "Donald Trump " ignorant

Pakistan’s interior minister has launched a blistering assault on “ignorant” Donald Trump after the Republican presidential frontrunner vowed to free the doctor who helped track down Osama bin Laden if he wins office. Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said the “government of Pakistan and not Donald Trump” will decide the fate of Shakeel Afridi, languishing in prison five years after his fake vaccination programme helped the CIA track and kill the Al Qaeda leader. Khan spoke late Monday in response to an interview with Trump

US Democratic lawmakers visiting Mexico City on Monday assailed Donald Trump’s controversial remarks about immigrants, with one member of Congress decrying his “poisonous rhetoric.” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi led a congressional delegation from border states during a visit that included talks with President Enrique Pena Nieto about trade, security and immigration. Mexico’s government has criticized Trump for calling Mexican immigrants rapists and said it would not pay for a wall along the border as demanded by the Republican frontrunner if he is elected president. “I know that many people are very concerned about the remarks against immigrants, but I can assure you that we fight every day against this poisonous rhetoric,” US Representative Linda Sanchez of California said in Spanish at a news conference. Ruben Gallego, a lawmaker from Arizona, said “Donald Trump’s rhetoric is not a reflection of the United States’ opinion of our neighbors and friends, the Mexicans.” Henry Cuellar said people from his home state of Texas do not want walls, as they “know that the Rio Grande doesn’t divide us, it unifies us as two nations.” Vice President Joe Biden said during his own visit to Mexico City in February that he felt “almost obliged to apologize” for the comments made about Mexicans during the Republican primary race.

Gravitational wave scientists win $2m Special Breakthrough Prize

Following their February breakthrough, Kip Thorne, Rainer Weiss, Ronald Drever and nearly 1,000 LIGO scientists will share the Silicon Valley-backed prize

Why discovering gravitational waves changes everything

Mere months after they declared thediscovery of gravitational waves, more than 1,000 physicists have been handed good reason to put their party hats back on and return to the champagne.

The February observation of ripples in the fabric of spacetime, first postulated by Albert Einstein a century ago, has landed the researchers $3m (£2.04m) in the shape of a prize backed by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.

Announced on Tuesday, the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physicswill be shared among the founders of the Laser

The founders of Ampler don’t want you to think of electric bicycles as special. "We are making bicycles," says co-founder Ardo Kaurit with a pause. "We’re building 21st century bicycles that combine a really good bike with modern technology to make them even better." The implication is that a day will come when most commuter bicycles are equipped with electric motors, in the same way that

World Bank To Make Disclosure On Abacha Loot Spending

The World Bank has agreed to consider a request made by civil society organisation, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), seeking additional information on how money recovered from late dictator, General Sani Abacha was spent by the Nigerian government.

This information is contained in a statement issued in Lagos yesterday by SERAP and signed by the organisation’s executive director, Adetokunbo Mumuni.

According to SERAP, the World Bank decision was as a result of an appeal the organisation lodged with the bank on February 5, 2016 on the ground that the bank’s decision on its initial request did not reveal “important portions of the information requested on how Abacha loot was spent”.

Based on the development the the international financial institution has referred the portion of the appeal filed by SERAP, to which adequate information has not been provided, to the Bank Archives Unit for processing for public access.

The organisation states that “the Bank Access to Information Committee (AIC) in its Decision on appeal issued in Case number AI3982-A dated 29 April 2016, and sent to SERAP held that although the appeal by the organisation was not filed within 60 days of the Bank’s decision as required by its Access to Information Policy, SERAP appeal nonetheless “contains a request for additional information, not previously submitted by the requester, and which the Bank has neither considered nor denied. Accordingly, the AIC refers back to the Archives Unit this portion of the appeal for processing for public access.” “The portion of the appeal which the Bank has now referred to its Archives Unit for public access include information on: evidence.

and list of the 23 projects allegedly completed with recovered Abacha loot, and whether the 23 projects where actually completed; and what became of the 2 abandoned projects; evidence and location of the 8 health centers built with recovered Abacha loot reviewed by the World Bank; and evidence and location of the 18 power projects confirmed by the World Bank

Crisis Looms In Polytechnics As Lecturers Threaten strike

The nation’s polytechnic sector may be heading for another round of strike as lecturers across the country have threatened to embark on a strike action if the Federal Government does not urgently address the various industrial issues bedevilling the sector.

The lecturers under the aegis of Association of Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), stated that all attempts made by the union to meet government officials to explain the urgency of their demands have failed.

President of ASUP, Comrade Usman Yusuf Dutse, who addressed newsmen on in Abuja ahead of the 2016 World Workers’ Day, declared that the situation leaves the union with no choice but to embark on an industrial action.

He said the union was disturbed that since the suspension of the protracted strike in 2014, none of the core issues of demand has been addressed by the Federal Government.

According to him, the lecturers have been reluctant to take appropriate actions to address the situation because it believes in dialogue and have always practiced responsible unionism

He said: “However, we are now being pushed to resort to extreme measures in resolving industrial dispute and we shall act accordingly. We have decided to place this position before government and the Nigerian public for the benefit of the sector and to challenge government to act now in order to avert another industrial disharmony in our polytechnics.

We are aware that the issues between government and ASUP have lingered for years. We are also cognisant of the fact that this government came to power about one year ago but then government is a continuum.

Let The Robot Take Over

ONE OF THE most exciting things about the coming age ofautonomous driving (((lis all the ways it will free designers from constraints like forward-facing seats, a steering wheel, and the need to pay attention. Connected car company Harman and automotive design firm Rinspeed explore this new freedom in the questionably named “Σtos” concept, envisioning what cars might look like when a human driver becomes a thing of the past.

Let the human drive, sometimes.

Credit: HARMAN

OK, a human will be in charge

Perceiving betrayal in the US Politics

Betrayal At The Heart Of US Politics

A powerful sense of betrayal is driving the 2016 campaign. The Donald Trump campaign has always been angry. We are now beginning to see the same anger in the Bernie Sanders campaign. No candidate left in the race is echoing Barack Obama’s 2008 message of hope and optimism. Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and former side, the sense of betrayal started long before the Trump campaign. It emerged with the Tea Party movement in 2010, which claimed that Republicans in Washington were failing to do what Republicans elected them to do — namely, stop Obama, particularly his Obamacare policies. The Tea Party accused GOP party leaders like former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and former House Speaker

4G coming soon....

MTN Plans Commercial 4G LTE Services From July

MTN Nigeria is set to roll out its Fourth Generation Long Term Evolution (4GLTE) broadband services latest by July 2016 in selected cities, using the 800MHz frequency acquired from Visafone Ltd earlier this year.

MTN plans to have about 1,500 LTE collocated sites backhauled with fibre optics this year.

LEADERSHIP had last week exclusively reported that MTN Nigeria paid N47.5 billion to acquire Visafone’s assets, including its frequency and 2.1 million customers in order to improve the quality of MTN’s broadband services for its subscribers.

The chief executive officer, MTN, Mr Fedinand Moolman, confirmed, during MTN Group Ltd’s first quarter results analyst c

History being Made

Leicester Wins English Title for 1st Time in 132-Yr History

Leicester City secured its first Premier League title without playing on Monday after second-place Tottenham drew 2-2 at Chelsea in one of the biggest-ever triumphs by an underdog in sports.

Jubilant Leicester players watched the game at top-scorer Jamie Vardy's house and were filmed singing "Championes! Championes! Ole! Ole! Ole!" while jumping up and down with their arms on each other's shoulders.

Just two years ago, Vardy and many of his teammates were playing in the second tier and then came close to being relegated again last year. They started this season as 5,000-1 outsiders for the title but for the first time in its 132-year history Leicester is champion of England.

Leicester, which is based in a central England city with a population of 330,000, now has an insurmountable seven-point lead over

Premier League Winner

JUST IN: Leicester City Win Premier League Title

Leicester City have won the Premier League title in one of the greatest sporting stories of all time.

Tottenham’s 2-2 draw at Chelsea on Monday confirmed a stunning achievement for Claudio Ranieri’s side.

Leicester started the campaign as 5,000-1 outsiders for the title after almost being relegated last season.

But they have lost just three league games in what has been described as a “fairytale” and the “most unlikely triumph in the history of team sport”.

Closest challengers Spurs, Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United and last year’s champions Chelsea, have all failed to match the Foxes’ consistency across the season.

“In terms of domestic football, Leicester City winning the Premier League is the greatest achievement ever and I think it will never be surpassed,” former Leicester midfielder Robbie Savage told BBC Sport.

“It is incredible. This is a turning poin

Electricity boost in Nigeria

FG Targets 7,000mw In 18 Months To Boost Electricity – Osinbajo

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo said on Monday that the Federal Government was planning to generate 7, 000 megawatts of electricity for the nation within the next 18months.

The vice president stated this at the presentation of a book “Nigeria: The Challenges of Growth and Development, an In-Depth Analysis by Experts,” held at the Trenchard Hall, University of Ibadan, Ibadan.

Osinbajo stated that power remains a major challenge the Federal Government had been facing, and which the government was determined to solve.

He said that the most important part of the budget would focus on ensuring that the weak aspect of the power value chain was restored.

Osinbajo said that the nation was faced with the proble

FG To Pay Subsidy On PMS

The Federal Government said it would pay subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit from the recoveries made in the first quarter of 2016.
This is contained in the latest Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) template released in Abuja.
It said that between January and March, the Federal Government was able to save about N10 billion as a result of selling the product above the Expected Open Market Price.
According to the new template, the expected open market price of the Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) has risen to N99.38 per litre for independent and major oil marketers and N98.62 per litre for NNPC retail outlets.
It added that the expected open market price was the actual price of the product without subsidy and it was based on the current exchange rate of N197 to a dollar.
It said that at the current price of N86 per litre at NNPC retail outlets, the Federal Government was paying N12.62 per litre as subsidy on the product and N12.88 per litre as subsidy for other oil marketers’ price of N86.50.
A breakdown of the template revealed that for NNPC retail outlets and independent and major oil marketers, the Landing Cost of PMS imported into the country was N84.32 and N85.08 per litre respectively,
It stated that the distribution margin, which include retailers, transportation, bridging fund and dealers margin among others stood at N14.30 for both the NNPC and other marketers.
According to the statement, this brings the current Expected Open Market Price to N98.62 and N99.38 for NNPC retail outlets and other marketers respectively.

Have you ever asked what is contained in the Nigerian annual budget

Beyond Passing, Signing Of A Budget

By Amir Bagwanje.

Year in, year out, the Federal government of Nigeria and indeed the state governments prepare budgets in line with their fiscal responsibilities and philosophies. There was never a time at least, in recent memories where Nigerians showed even the remotest concern of what their annual budget document contains. This show of indifference to budget in particular and other government policies is borne out of the obvious Nigerian factor- lack of commitment to follow through promises Nigerian politicians make to the electorate during electioneering campaign. Who would have wasted his/her precious time analysing or debating a piece of document that he/she knows fully well that is not going to be implemented.

Trillions of

Wow! A Solar Airplane...

UPDATE: SunPower® Solar-Powered Plane Resumes ‘Round-the-World Flight

Solar Impulse 2, with Pilot Andre Borschberg in the cockpit, took off this morning from Moffett Federal Airfield in Mountain View, Ca., and will land in Phoenix later today as it continues a 'round-the-world journey that will end in Abu Dhabi.

In April, Solar Impulse 2, the solar airplane that broke world records last July for longest solo and solar flight, plans to continue its ‘round-the-world journey using clean energy from SunPower^® solar cells.

SunPower — which provided more than 17,000 Maxeon^® solar cells for the single-seater fuel-less airplane — has been working with the groundbreaking Solar Impulse project for eight years. We were chosen for the project because we design and manufacture the most efficient¹ and durable² solar cells available.

Solar Impulse isn’t

What will Trump be like?

The question of the moment: What will Trump be like as GOP nominee?

Indianans vote in their primaries on Tuesday. Stay caught up on the race.

The limits of Ted Cruz's strategy

In 2012, Mitt Romney effectively ended Rick Santorum’s presidential campaign with a seven-point victory in Wisconsin. Just 44 percent of Wisconsin Republican voters picked him, yet in exit polls, 67 percent of them said they’d be “satisfied” if he won the nomination.

Cruz’s Wisconsin victory was nearly twice as large as Romney’s in 2012, with a 13-point margin, and a near-majority of 48.2 percent support. Yet in exit polls, asked how they’d feel if Cruz won the presidency, just 60 percent were optimistic. Put another way, for every two votes Romney got, another voter was open to backing him. For Cruz, the ratio was four-to-one.

These 10 states will

A Sabotage, Why would they do that?

Investigate Oil Firms Over Pipeline Attacks, Tompolo Tells PMB

The former Niger Delta militant leader, High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, also known as Tompolo, at the weekend, broke his silence over the recent attacks on oil and gas pipelines in the region, urging the President Mohammad Buhari to investigate the oil servicing companies.

Tompolo, in an open letter personally signed and titled “Am not part of the Niger Delta Avengers Group‎”, alleged that the oil pipeline repair servicing companies sabotage the pipelines in order to secure surveillance and repair contracts from the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) due to deficiency in handling the jobs.

Tompolo’s statement,

He said it, What do you think?

Enugu Attack Will End Herdsmen’s Nefarious Activities – Ekweremadu

Deputy Senate President, Chief Ike Ekweremadu, yesterday, assured Nigerians that the recent attack on Nimbo Community in Uzo-Uwani local government, Enugu State, by suspected herdsmen would bring an end to the menace of herdsmen.

Ekweremadu, who led other members of the National Assembly from Enugu State to the area, described the damage done to the community as devastating.

He assured them that the incidents would bring an end to

Illegal Petrol storage? Not cool

PPPRA Uncovers Illegal Petrol Storage Facility In Giri

The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) has uncovered an illegal facility used for the storage of petroleum products in Giri area of Abuja.

The discovery was made at the weekend, when a team of PPPRA officials, led by the head of Corporate Services, Lanre Oladele, went on a monitoring exercise to check marketers’ compliance with regulations in Abuja and environ, as fuel scarcity abates.

Oladele said the unauthorised facility, owned by Sunmart Progress Nig Ltd, may have been converted to an illegal fuel dump, as various units

Death took Him!

Nigeria: Veteran Diplomat, Hamzat Ahmadu, Dies

One of the nation's exemplary diplomats, Amb. Hamzat Ahmadu, died yesterday at a private hospital in Lagos.

It was learnt from family sources that prayers for the deceased and interment would be performed this morning by 10:00 a.m. at the Sultan's Palace, in Sokoto, according to Islamic rites.

Reacting to the news of the death, the Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, described Ahmadu as an accomplished diplomat and technocrat.

Tambuwal also described him as peace-loving and

Hmm! So Gender Politics really has a role to play??

Gender Politics Playing a Big Role for Trump, Clinton

She has no stamina. She shouts. She's got nothing going for her but being a woman.

Donald Trump, after toying with gender politics off and on during the campaign, is all in on a mission to undercut Hillary Clinton's credentials by syncing up his say-anything campaign strategy with his alpha-male persona.

The same Republican presidential candidate who mocked "little" Marco Rubio, dismissed "low-energy" Jeb Bush and promises to "cherish" and "protect" women as president is dismissing the former senator, secretary of state and first lady as little more than a token female who's playing the

What does Trump have for us?

Trump Has a 'Plan B' for Convention _ Outside Help

Donald Trump has a Plan B if he's faced with a contested convention, and it involves the sort of outside groups that he's called "corrupt."

While the billionaire businessman might lock up the Republican presidential nomination in the next five weeks of voting, he and his allies are simultaneously undertaking a parallel effort in case he falls short.

Outside groups, including one led by longtime Trump political ally Roger Stone, and a loose collection of colorful supporters such as "Bikers for Trump" are organizing ahead of the July convention in Cleveland.

They're soliciting money to pay for their transportation and housing, and they're already trying to influence the mood of the convention with a social media campaign saying that anything short of a Trump nomination would be "stealing."

"Our principal focus right now is Cleveland," Stone said of his group, called Stop the Steal. "We want to bring as large a contingent as possible to demonstrate the breadth of Trump's appeal so that the party can see graphically what they're going to lose if they hijack the nomination from him."

Stop the Steal and other groups are gaining steam even though Trump has insisted he wants no donor help for his bid and is beholden to no one.

Super political actio

He confirms his retirement "Puff daddy"

PUFF DADDY CONFIRMS RETIREMENT AFTER ‘NO WAY OUT 2’

Diddy’s motto has always been clear: “Can’t stop. Won’t stop.” But that seems to be changing, as the Bad Boy boss has confirmed his upcoming retirement from hip-hop.

During an interview with Cigar Aficionado, Puff Daddy explained why his next album, No Way Out 2, will be his finale in the rap game.

“I’m going to put out my last album and devote 100 percent of my time to doing films,” he told the magazine, according to PEOPLE. “I want to stop at a great place…A final album is a great place to stop. I want to take a victory lap, to do a world tour and really enjoy it once last time.”

Puff promises that NWO2 will be “honest” and an important part of his 20-year legacy.

“When I’m gone, only the songs will survive,” he added. “I know I’m making music that will live on. I don’t go into the studio just t

Democracy In Nigeria

Democracy In Nigeria: A Case For Citizens’ Participation

By David Dimas

The dishonorable happenings in the 8th National Assembly have resolutely convinced politically-engaged Nigerians that a critical mass of politicians in the upper and lower chambers of our law making ivory tower are not there for representative democracy, but to earn the largest legislative allowances and wages in the history of democracy on earth.

From the melodrama produced by the Machiavellian process of picking principal officers in the lawmaking assemblage to the current Saraki saga, the drama seems to keep evolving unabatedly from the floors of the both house. Nigerians are finding it hard to move on with zest as expected by standard demands of citizenship because those they have elected to represent them at the National Assembly now advance their personal interest without recourse to their constituents.

Let’s face it, insensitive politicians, irrespective of party affiliations, love to spend funds on themselves irrespective of any opinion from

Say no to Nuclear Energy in Nigeria

Nigeria: Say No To Nuclear Energy In Nigeria

I read an article on April 26, 2016, in a Nigerian newspaper "Nuclear power not safe for Nigeria by Sen. Shehu Sani." I hope his voice will not be a lone voice on this issue while the citizens he is trying to protect look on. Although I don't live in Nigeria, it is my native land and I love my native land, the people are my people and thus their predicament my concern.

Despite the efficiency of the Japanese government and its people, their advancement in technology and history of excellent disaster management preparedness the nuclear disaster in Japan is proving to be one of the worst nuclear disasters, since Chernobyl.

History is the study of the present and the past to project into the future.

Nigeria's history of disaster management or maintenance culture in the past and the present has much to be desired of, so how can it want to project into a future of nuclear energy with all the attendant risk.

It does not take an expert in Nuclear energy to be able to state basic obvious facts that are glaring. Any major mishap involving radiation leaks from nu

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